Hm chord?

[Razordance]

I was checking out a tab site today and found a reference to a chord
labelled as Hm. Now as far as I know there is no H chord, so what am I
supposed to be playing? Thanks in advance...

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Razordance <blin...@nospam.rogers.com> writes:

> I was checking out a tab site today and found a reference to a chord
> labelled as Hm. Now as far as I know there is no H chord, so what am I
> supposed to be playing? Thanks in advance...
>

In Germany, if I recall correctly, they refer to what we call Bb as B
and what we call B as H. Or somesuch thing. So it's possible that
that's what is meant. I'd give a Bm a try and see if it sounds right.

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[Gero Brockschnieder]

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> In Germany, if I recall correctly, they refer to what we call Bb as B
> and what we call B as H. Or somesuch thing. So it's possible that
> that's what is meant. I'd give a Bm a try and see if it sounds right.

Right. It's the german version of Hm :)

gero

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[Dadoo]

> Razordance <blin...@nospam.rogers.com> writes:
>
> In Germany, if I recall correctly, they refer to what we call Bb
> as B and what we call B as H. Or somesuch thing. So it's
> possible that that's what is meant. I'd give a Bm a try and see
> if it sounds right.
>

Thats right. In German & Scandinavian H=B and B=Bb. So Hm should be a
Bm chord.

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[Markus Appel]

"Dadoo" <seesp...@thedoghousemail.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> > Razordance <blin...@nospam.rogers.com> writes:
> >
> > In Germany, if I recall correctly, they refer to what we call Bb
> > as B and what we call B as H. Or somesuch thing. So it's
> > possible that that's what is meant. I'd give a Bm a try and see
> > if it sounds right.
> >
>
> Thats right. In German & Scandinavian H=B and B=Bb. So Hm should be a
> Bm chord.

Does anybody know how this came about?
I mean, when and why did we Germans become so inconsequent?
Starting from A the (English) scale goes
A-B-C-D-E-F-G
the German one goes
A-H-C-D-E-F-G
I've always wondered about this. It's a real bugger that we Germans always
have to check if the chords are in "English" or "German". Fortunately, after
15 years of guitar playing and a little bit of theoretical background, I can
easily find out what is meant.
Markus

[smiles]

There is also the same scale in French : Do, Ré, Mi, Fa, Sol, La, Si, Do
This means that the scale starts at "C" or "Do". Why does it not start at
"A" or "La"?
A while back, Do or "C" was called "Ut".
I'm no expert but I guess that music notation has a long history and
tradition that evolved with slight differences according to different
European cultures.

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